In situ study of hydride precipitation kinetics and re-orientation in Zircaloy using synchrotron radiation

Acta Materialia

Volumn 58, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 6575-6583

  Colas, K B ^a   Motta, A T ^a   Almer, J D ^b   Daymond, M R ^c   Kerr, M ^c   Banchik, A D ^d   Vizcaino, P ^d   Santisteban, J R ^e  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Argentina)

^e CENTRO ATÓMICO BARILOCHE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Hydride; Hydride re orientation; Synchrotron radiation; Zirconium alloys

Indexed keywords

APPLIED STRESS; BULK MATERIALS; CLADDING FAILURES; CLADDING TUBES; CRACK GROWTH; DIRECT OBSERVATION; HYDRIDE FORMATION; HYDRIDE PLATELETS; IN-PLANE; IN-SITU; IN-SITU EXPERIMENTS; IN-SITU STUDY; MATERIAL BEHAVIOR; MATRIX; ORIENTATION RELATIONSHIP; PRECIPITATION KINETICS; RE-ORIENTATION; RE-PRECIPITATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SOLUBILITY LIMITS; THRESHOLD STRESS; ZIRCALOY;

DISSOLUTION; HYDRIDES; MECHANICAL TESTING; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUCLEAR FUEL CLADDING; NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; SYNCHROTRONS; TERNARY ALLOYS; ZIRCONIUM; ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77957999815     PISSN: 13596454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2010.07.018     Document Type: Article

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